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Nicholas Breton , 1551?-c.1623, English author, a prolific and versatile writer of verse and prose. His best work, written in a lyrical and pastoral vein, appeared in The Arbor of Amorous Devices (1597), England's Helicon (1600), and The Passionate Shepherd (1604).

Bibliography: See his poems (ed. with biography by J. Robertson, 1952); A Mad World My Masters and Other Prose Works (ed. by U. Kentish-Wright, 1929).

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Breton, Nicholas (?1555–1626), author of a miscellaneous collection of satirical, religious, romantic, and political writings in verse and prose. His best poetry is to be found among his short lyrics in Englands Helicon (1600) and in his volume of pastoral poetry The Passionate Shepheard (1604).

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